Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-11-05
iniquities for its highways are heavy
with malarial gloom.

with malarial gloom.
We hear good deal said about who
will be nominated as candidate for next
president at the National Republican
Convention. Whom is it to be?
Of late ne find much chaffall
twaddle animadverting on our politi-
cal status, from the Democratic press,
charging US with a want of fealty to the
cause of true Republicanism, be cause,
in truth, we have reflected, and are re-
fecting, and shall contin ne to reflect
somewhat, on the demagoguery of COR
rupted Democracy till there is better
state of affairs than has been already.
The tricks and antics employed by the.
Democrats to secure the election of a
Democratic president was not fiction
but fact. We were molested and dis
turbed here in the South; we were
threatened with our property being
burned, we were threatened with our
lives being taken, we were, in some To-
calities outraged and mobbed, and even
lynched, for standing true to our trust.
proving our citizenship by casting our
votes for those whom we trusted to be
our guide and shield in hours of peril.
80, Consistency, Thou art a Jewel"
Now. let us look at the facts of the
case and see whether thore is any truth
in the charge. The trnth is, the aman-
atoms from the prolific brains of the
wiseacres of the Democrats is nothing
but vapor and smoke-the basest fabric
of a vision. In the first count of an in
dictment we charge the Democrats with
infGelity to the common good of the
people OF this nation. Alas when /
study what is best for the future happi-
ness of the Afro American, carr but
attribute to their consideration some
thing like the following:
There are men of brains who count their
gains
BY the Million of dollars or more.
They buy and sell, and really do we'll
On the money of the poor.
They manage to get the poor in debt
By various crooked ways;
And so it IS said that the man to. day
ls the honest man who pays.
Some alley or backway street;
With head erect he will never defect
But boldly each man meet,
He counts the cost before he is lost
In debts mysterious maze,
And he never buys in a manner unWise
But calls for his bill and pays.
There is q certain air of debonair
In the man who buys for cash;
He is not afraid OF being betrayed
By jackleg Shyster's dash.
What he says to you he will certainly do,
If its cash, or thirty days,
And when he goes out the clerks will shout
Hurrah, for the man who pays
The above lines of poetry which are
quoted, very truthfully to the Afro
American that it is better to pay cash
for what be gets for fear of The shysters
dash.
Now there is anoth her thing, which
to every colored man smack of strik-
ing illustration of frail mems vanity and
ingratitude; and that is, Why they,
(here in the south) are over so anxious
to talk, speak, and even publish to the
world, low and mean acts of the Col
ored People any more than they do of
whites, greal many they publish are
not so, and put themselves to such little
to find the good qualities and acts about
the Colored People. We admit that
some of the Colored People do acts that
are not right, having the whites as their
model, but the whole race should not
suffer for the acts of a few any more
than the whole white race suffer for the
acts of some OF them, for in this part of
Mississippi there are almost despera-
does among the whites, and why don't
we charge the whole race for the acts Of
these. tits plain, we don't think it is
right. We await good results, and shall
continue to labor ourselves, that may
be derived from the labors of these
philanthropists VINO are laboring SO
faithfully to bring about a better state Of
affairs. +. J. G.